# Commercial maturity

`kaal:entity:commercial-maturity`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `commercial-maturity`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2017 to 2017.

**2017**

- [2834531-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2834531-034) [empirical/argued] -- Data on the timing of investment is a reliable indicator of a technology's commercial maturity, because high levels of investor activity signal that the technology is about to be ready for commercial exploitation, which tells regulators when to intervene.
  > Data on the timing of investment appears to provide a reliable indicator of the commercial maturity of a technology, in the sense that high levels of investor activity indicate that a particular technology is about to be ready for commercial exploitation.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834531
- [2939127-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-021) [empirical/evidenced] -- Venture capital investment in blockchain startups has grown exponentially since 2012, which the authors read as an indicator of the technology's commercial maturity.
  > Figure 2 shows that venture capital (VC) investment in startup companies that utilize blockchain technology has increased exponentially since 2012.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

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